I recently set up a floating toolbar to use as a dock to quickly access scripts I frequently run as well as commonly accessed folder and programs. It's really great how customizable it is! My only issue is I find that I sometimes accidentally activate it when my mouse moves near the area I have it docked and auto hidden. I increased the reveal delay but I'm wondering if there is a way to reveal the toolbar using a keyboard shortcut rather than moving my mouse to the region of the screen where it was docked. Setting the reveal delay definitely helped but a keyboard shortcut would be so much quicker than using the mouse. Thanks!
If you turn off auto-hide, and then set up a hotkey like the one below, you can toggle the toolbar on and off via the keypress:
Toolbar NAME="My Docked Toolbar" STATE=float POS=3840,0 APPBAR=bottom TOGGLE
The POS=3840,0
part only matters if you have more than one monitor and want to be explicit about which screen it opens on. (Otherwise, I think it uses the one that currently has the mouse, or maybe the one the toolbar was last on. Not sure off the top of my head.)
The APPBAR=bottom
should be changed if you want it docked to another screen edge.
And the toolbar name should be changed to the one you're using, of course.
@Leo thank you so much! This is exactly what I wanted to do! I really appreciate such a fast reply from you as always. I wish I had another PC so I could justify another license to support the great work you guys do. The second Opus 13 comes around I'll be upgrading to show my support. Thanks again!
To make this even more efficient I added AUTOCLOSE
after TOGGLE
. This way I can toggle it on and off with my shortcut, but when I make a selection the toolbar autohides for me. This is really useful as I use it to access a few remote machines over RDP and I have shortcuts to the .rdp files on the toolbar. This way once my remote machine goes fullscreen, the toolbar disappears. It also makes the operation a little more logical feeling since once I make a selection naturally I'd want the toolbar to disappear and that saves a keystroke. The sheer amount of customizability in DOpus never cease to amaze me.
Just for anyone potentially looking at this in the future setting POS=mousel
will make the toolbar appear on whichever display the mouse is on.